Copeland joined the New York City ballet company in 2000 and in 2015 was promoted to principal dancer — a first for an ...

The 28-minute short made its debut at the Tribeca Festival and was nominated for an NAACP Award. Copeland has been honored with the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP, The Heisman Trophy Humanitarian ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

Copeland has been honored with the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP, The Heisman Trophy Humanitarian Award, Time100 Most Influential People, Glamour’s Women of the Year, Black Girls Rock! Awards, the ...

Bush, as well as the Spingarn Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the NAACP, in 2006, for his accomplishments in neurosurgery, his biography states. (SIGN UP: Get today's Chattanooga area news ...

She received the Spingarn Medal, the NAACP’s highest honor, in 2021. Copeland’s appearance is presented in part by the UB Minority Faculty and Staff Association. Tickets range from $25-$45 and can be ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators (and their students) are eager to learn more about underrepresented ...

Many recognized his achievements, earning him a Spingarn Medal from the NAACP. Inventions like the traffic signal are best attributed to trailblazers like Garret Morgan. Morgan started his career ...